Womens Institute Hall

The building is a women’s institute hall, originally a Freemasons Hall, dating from 1879. It was converted in the 1970s. The construction is of snecked rubblestone with brick dressings. A moulded granite plinth forms the base, and a moulded stone string course sits above the ground-floor openings. Granite coping defines the gables of the porch and the main front. The left-hand side wall is rendered. The roof is slate, with gabled ends and a lower roof to the rear.

The gabled south front features a central gabled porch. The porch has a brick stilted arch containing a Masonic emblem in the keystone, set within dressed stone square piers with composite capitals. A moulded brick round arch is within, flanked by two lancet windows with round-headed brick arches. Keystone details above the arches carry carved stone Masonic emblems. Above the porch is an 8-light rose window with cusped heads set in granite, within a round arched opening, with a further rounded Masonic emblem of a five-pointed star above. The interior has been extensively altered, including the lowering of the ceiling, which has obscured many of the original Masonic emblems.